Theres a growing demand for physical keyboards on their devices
Where is this growing demand? I also see one or two people in the comments like this, and I get that you may want it, but I’ve seen no reports indicating it’s anything but extremely niche.
On a side note, which keyboard software do you use on your phone? Maybe that’s the problem.
For the people who want to actually know why instead of making random assumptions https://www.voanews.com/a/critics-say-un-resolution-on-nazism-too-restrictive/2534525.html
They didn’t, here’s the voting record https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/820132
He did though that says more about the pope than the war
Ireland is a weird example, considering it’s size (also isn’t it part of the west?) But briefly:
- Most of the internet and it’s platforms were invented or first adopted in the west
- Most of the internet is english and started as practically 100% english
China has had some massive platforms for example, but they’ve always been china-exclusive.
I feel you’re really overestimating the how willing and able normal people are to make repairs on today’s anti-consumer laptops. Most people will just have a laptop for a few years at which point enough things will break that they’ll just buy a new one.
Where framework comes in is it makes it possible for normal people, so when screen/touchpad/keyboard/ram etc. do finally go dead they can replace them, they can easily upgrade storage/ram/cpu etc instead of having to buy an entirely new device and so keep it around for far longer. Better for the environment and the consumer.
I also don’t understand your hate of expansion cards. As I said, if you’d rather use dongles and stuff, go ahead, but most people do find it a hassle and most devices don’t use thunderbolt/usb-c.
I don’t think there’s an issue of buying them either, they’re one of most prominent thing framework sells and they have also open sourced all schematics and stuff. I’ve already seen some enthusiasts design and sell some cards, and once framework gets in the hands of enough people, I bet some larger third-party companies will start doing so as well. And that’s still better than other laptops in which if you dent a port or something, it’s pretty much useless forever. In fact with framework, even if you break all your cards and all ability to purchase more mysteriously disappears, you can still use the internal thunderbolt ports.
but the main issue is part availability which you’ll run into on any modern portable
Do you mean like the current supply shortages or finding proprietary parts? If it’s the latter, then framework does solve it.
Its nice framework seems to want to solve that but adding more parts that can fail is not the answer.
I don’t understand this, the laptop has no more parts than a normal laptop, they’re just easier to change and repair.
The pro:con ratio isn’t enough for me to recommend this laptop to anyone especially normal users.
What are the problematic cons here? I have found it to be very competitive with other laptops in the price range, and that’s before you consider it’s reparability and environmental aspects.
Maybe if they supported coreboot along with plans to support different architectures down the line
I don’t see how these are useful for normal users.
Adding swappable connector things is even more pointless these days when a USBC/thunderbolt dock makes them pointless.
I think about this the other way around, since framework has these expansion cards, you no longer have to bother with dongles and docks. Even apple of all companies realized this and brought back a multitude of ports to the macbook, though of course, you can’t choose them like you can on framework. There’s no particular downside to consumer for this. At worst, they’re just a another part that can be replaced when they fail.
The problem is, even with the huge shift to electric cars, this is not changing, even though issues of weight are even worse there. Tesla has the model x and are hyping the cybertruck. Rivian started with a pickup. Ford led with their F-150 lightning.